What is outside our field of vision does not cease to exist To open this exhibition with such a statement invites us to reflect on the ecology of problems mobilized by what we shall name here global technological infrastructure. Namely social, economic, technical, symbolic, spiritual, cultural, sexual, political, geographic, environmental aspects, all of which are …

Louis Henderson, Lettre du voyant (2013). Vídeo. Image courtesy of Agência Galo Campos de Invisibilidade (2018). Performance by Aretha Sadick. Photo credits: Marcos Cimardi Campos de Invisibilidade (2018). Installation view. Photo credits: Marcos Cimardi What is outside our field of vision does not cease to exist To open this exhibition with such a statement invites us to reflect on …

Imaginemos Cosas Chingonas: Astonishment and vision in Made in L.A. 2018 Think back to the last time you were astonished by something. I mean genuinely, viscerally astonished so that you felt gripped or overwhelmed in spite of yourself. Astonishment at an art show for the regular art-goer, like blushing for a correteadx, is hard to …

El hambre como maestra/Hunger as Teacher is part of Carolina Caycedo’s ongoing project Be Dammed in which she collaborates with riverside populations in various bio-regions to address the socio-environmental impacts of dams. While engaged in fieldwork and research, Caycedo gathers objects, film footage, and testimonies. She also produces drawings, collages, sculptures, and films that document …

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents A Universal History of Infamy featuring sixteen U.S. Latino and Latin American artists and collaborative teams who work across a range of media—from installation and performance to sculpture and video—and adopt methodologies from diverse disciplines, including anthropology, history, linguistics, and literature. Most of the works on view are new projects that …

Ángela Bonadies, The Kitchen/La cocina (LA New Times Western School; Onnuri Church; Jin Young Yoon), 2016 and Street Meeting, 2016, 2017 from the series David Alfaro Siqueiros, Street Meeting, LA, 1932, 2016–2017, courtesy of the artist, installation view in A Universal History of Infamy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 20, 2017–February 19, 2018, …

In the exhibition entitled A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies of Contemporary Art in the Americas, we encounter the questions Latin American artists face when it comes to their artistic practices’ contextualization in the contemporary environment that has historically been monopolized by notions of art based on the legacies of Occidental ideology. Curated by Pilar Tompkins-Rivas—who has …

When the São Paulo Biennial was established in the 1950s, Brazil was considered a country of the future. Besides its welcoming atmosphere for immigrants, a fast and steady rhythm of economic growth and industrialization made the country a fertile terrain for new and modern utopic experiments. The Biennial was originally conceived by an Italian, industrial …

Curated by Beatriz López The Lyubov Orlova cruise, built in Yugoslavia in 1976, has spent several years wandering the oceans with a crew of hundreds of rats that have been eating each other in order to survive. This image of cannibal rats forming a colony evokes science fiction stories in which isolated communities generate societies indifferent …